How on earth do you do this? Do you not use the phone at all? Do you call standby what other people call "off" ?
I have a galaxy S (well, an AT&T Captivate or something that is a Galaxy S on the inside with an AT&T case) and I get a day with reasonable use. A lot of use followed by a late night and it will die but otherwise if I forget to plug it in, it will still be alive in the morning but deep into the red. I maybe make a phone call or two, send and receive a couple texts and receive emails from a gmail and an exchange account. Do you have that giant extra battery they sell?
Honestly though, I like this phone. It is a decent size (just a pinch bigger than an iphone 4) and with CM7, seems to do whatever I need. I wish that the Galaxy S3 was just this phone but taking advantage of advances in tech to make it slightly more powerful while having twice as much battery life (instead of the actual S3 which is probably more than twice as powerful and has a much larger screen but at an additional cost to battery life).
It may just be that I am also used to this sort of grading system (well, the corrupted one where I would have been aghast upon receiving a high school C)--but for really in depth reviews of something like a game that you might spend 20-40 hours on, I think this is the way to go.
Sure they can be mapped to real numbers but lets face it 5 and below are not useful to me. If a game gets an F, then I am probably not going to play it. A score of 1 is almost unreasonable...its like they managed to ship me a blank DVD (and maybe they will get a 2 if the cover art was real nice). A 3 might install and play but be horrifically buggy and have terrible gameplay and a plot that resembles reading a choose your own adventure book in page order. Basically they all suck and I don't want to play them (but its pretty hard to suck so bad that you actually get any major distributor to sell your game if you are in the 1-3 territory)--there is a lot of variance in the failing grades ranging from didn't try at all to tried but was unable to comprehend the point of a video game but they all still fail.
Almost doesn't make sense to have plusses and minuses on the C or D rankings either...below a certain point a game is just a C and there's not enough to really discern the difference between a C and C-. Just doesn't make sense for games to be normally distributed since they are actively trying to release good games--the worst games will never be released (or nobody will bother to review them) while the other games will be the gamemaker's best attempt and will thus end up somewhere in the ABC range.
That'd be perfect--I would never have to find a parking spot, I could just tell my autonomous car to circle the block until I am done. A gallon of gas costs far less than a valet or a ramp (especially if my car is efficient and the computer only lets it accelerate super slow and use the highest possible gear at all times).
Sure, my slowpoke car driving in circles will just create more congestion and emissions for everyone else...but fuck 'em! at least I didn't have to find a parking spot.
Unfortunately I am currently looking for an apartment and housingmaps doesn't seem to be a good substitute.
I just pulled up the same area with the same price range as I was looking at yesterday in padmapper and housingmaps only shows two apartments for rent where padmapper was showing 30+ (and most of the padmapper results were craigslist based)
Well the way these things usually work are that they don't have to be perfect at catching you cheat, but they only have to catch you once.
Its not even that novel of a concept...look at Valve and VAC, if you get caught cheating on a VAC secured server, your entire account gets blacklisted and can't play on other anti cheat servers (and this applies to every game linked to your steam account which is actually kind of scary). There are still other servers that don't enforce anti-cheat but my guess is they are filled mostly with hackers and pirates (so basically...a cheaters pool).
What happens is someone comes up with a nice hack, people start using it, Valve figures it out and bans everyone it can catch, and then the hack author notices it has been found and they modify it in such a way that it avoids detection again. Every time Valve does this, they ban a bunch of accounts who are gone forever unless they come in and buy a new game. It doesn't stop cheating or make it impossible...but it puts a financial burden on the cheater.
That doesn't make any sense. Your computer runs the logic on those games and if you were to download the flash files, they would probably run just fine locally (but I am sure they have some preventative measure installed to try and keep people from doing that).
I'm not saying you can't play single player D3. I played single player through normal before switching to multiplayer (since people skip all of the cutscenes in multiplayer) and I still often play by myself. What I am saying is that D3 can not be made to play offline, it is simply not possible with the way the game is designed. You install the client on your computer and you connect to the server on blizzards computer which generates everything important about the game.
If blizzard wanted to have an offline mode to appease the tiny fraction of D2 players who used it, they would have to completely develop, test, and maintain both windows and osx versions of this server (since I highly doubt the battlenet servers run windows). As others have mentioned, this would probably also make it easier for botters and hackers to develop exploits and at the end of the day, it would cost a ton of money for a tiny little group of gamers (many of whom have access to internet connections anyways and would be perfectly happy just playing solo on battlenet).
An offline mode would be a nice feature...but not if it is going to cost them a boatload of money and an extra year of development time.
The problem that all of the "no offline single player mode" keep missing is that the game does not exist on your PC.
The game is in fact just like WoW--you may be able to spawn your own private instance of the world that nobody else can join, but all game logic takes place on blizzard hardware. The monster that is attacking you and the loot that it drops are all entries in a database on a server somewhere and if you don't have an internet connection, you can't play.
Sure, an offline mode would be nice--especially after I discovered that the game is super-playable with a thinkpad's trackpoint nub (couldn't play for crap with the touchpad but the trackpoint was 99% as good as a mouse) which would make it a perfect game to kill time on an airplane or train or in some other similar situation where you are sitting for a long time with now low-latency internet--but I am willing to accept that they were not going to completely rewrite a local version of the game server just so I can play at 10,000 feet.
Even when I have accidentally clicked on an in-app ad banner, it takes so long for the damn thing to open a browser (and maybe first pop up a dialog asking which browser I want to use if I don't have a default set) and then load the page and then load the redirect (because there is always a redirect on ads like this).
Even if I actually wanted to see the ad, I would have lost interest at this point.
Because the real issue is not packets but concurrent bandwidth.
This is not a commodity problem like molecules of water flowing through a pipe or electrons moving down a wire (although electricity does have a little bit of a dual issue with respect to concurrent use since power generation has to be ramped up or down to meet demand). If you send or receive a packet at 3AM when nobody else is using the lines, it doesn't matter. What matters are those packets you want to send and receive at 5PM in the city when everybody is trying to stream pandora or watch a youtube clip on their commute home.
If you aren't going to support unlimited, its actually kind of a hard problem to solve. Things that made sense with the voice paradigm--local calls being free since there are lots of local interconnects while long distance calls were charged per minute since they only had a limited number of lines in and out of your community--don't make sense in the digital age of packets and little chunks (since you don't need continuous monopoly over a piece of wire). Any sort of price put on data transfer is not related to the cost of sending a packet at all, it is merely an attempt to thwart usage to a point where peak usage is less than peak capacity.
Its not 100% about the spoilers though. Some people like to discuss what is happening and that discussion usually happens in the first couple of days following the airing (since some people DVR it, or watch it on demand, or torrent it).
I tend to participate in some discussions on a forum I am a member of, but I wait to watch with friends--we probably won't be able to get together until tuesday to watch it. I can still go back and read the discussion that is occurring now, but as comments get stale, I can't really respond to them. I could read them now without spoilers since I have read the book, but a lot of the discussion tends to be about differences from the book and without seeing the episode, I can't really talk about those points.
It would be even worse if I was a week late. If it airs on sunday night and I don't go hit the forum until lunchtime on monday, there are probably already 10 posts about the new episode on top of a pile of posts about the episode I just watched...I really can't engage in the conversation at this point. If I just went online and downloaded it last week when it aired (since these days you can usually have the torrent downloaded and be watching 60 minutes after airing), I would be able to engage in the discussion.
Exactly- Are they going to stop calling this the "Pro"
The average person doesn't need things like gigabit or even a disc drive anymore (can't remember the last time I used a disc at home and other than my desktop and htpc which don't have wireless, the last time I plugged my laptop into the network was a long time ago and I only did it to save a couple minutes on a big transfer). But the business user (or professonal) has other requirements that they don't set.
At work, we run ethernet only--no non-physical connections to the network and only ports that are expected to be in use are activated. We get DVDs from clients who refuse or are unwilling to provide data on an HDD or send electronically. Maybe you are a photographer whose client wants a CD burned with the images. Maybe the business hotel you are staying at only offers suitable ethernet and no wifi.
Its an important feature and seems dumb to remove. They already have the normal macbook and the macbook air...lets keep a power-model for the power-users. Also, if they are worried about the width of the port, why not switch to one of those ports where you push on them and they pop out a little tab where you insert the ethernet cable from the top like all of the old non-dongle PCMCIA ethernet cards and modems.
My favorite is the trendy vegans who don't like vegetables (or other vegan staples) and instead subsist on vegan knockoffs of meat-eater junk food...chicken nuggets, burgers, tofurkey bacon. They end up eating less healthy foods and most of the time, the processing, flavorings, packaging, and back and forth transit of all the parts to make this crap means that their food is actually far less environmentally friendly than just eating a piece of a local pig with some eggs and then washing it down with a glass of milk.
The less direct imitation products can taste fine. Tofu has some great preparations, a good seitan can be an excellent component to a dish, and people make some phenomenal things with black bean. The imitations just make so little sense for anyone who isn't doing it to "make a statement" and/or be cool--if you are doing it for your love of animals, then why on earth do you want to eat something that looks and tastes just like them??? If you are doing it to save the environment, wtf are you doing buying frozen, flavored, processed foods trucked in from who knows where?
Picasa--although I think that maintaining its status as competition to iphoto is key to keeping people using picasa web albums and certainly new enhancements point towards pushing user content onto Google+
And honestly that's about as good of an estimate as you can make.
Maybe it makes sense that they wouldn't start actively targeting Apple until 11.6% market share, but somebody's got to be first and if you are a virus-guy and come across some big vulnerability that will allow you to rapidly infect a ton of machines...you go for it. Maybe he wasn't even targeting apple but stumbled across a vulnerability that would work and jumped on it.
Also, how much does one account for the purpose of the attack? If you are just trying to make more botnet drones it doesn't really matter if you target apple, but if you are trying to steal personal info, maybe there is some advantage to knowing that Apple users tend to be wealthier and may also be more likely to be trusting in their computer's security and leave things like account information in the clear (or if you broke into apple's keychain, you would have a goldmine since every computer uses it).
I had an issue with my property management company. The full extent of the issue was slow to manifest and in the early stages they had been moderately helpful so I continued to hope they would act in good faith as the problem got worse. Of course they didn't (they are known scum) and would constantly tell they would call back with a response or have a workman call me about taking care of it but nobody ever called. They wanted to replace my damaged hardwood floors with tile (which I wasn't happy about) but I couldn't even get a call or a plan from the tile guy.
I sent my 14-day notice (in IL your landlord has 14 days from this to solve the problem before you can start doing things like withholding rent, hiring someone yourself to fix it, or start breaking your lease) and on day #14 I get a phone call that the guy is coming to fix it (and a hardwood floor guy, not tile). Technically I could have withheld rent for the few days it took him to do his work but I was just happy to have everything done.
It wasn't sent on legal letterhead but I work with enough lawyers that I can sort of make it sound like a lawyer wrote it or provided advice. Things like listing exact dates of correspondence, using language directly from the lease and relevant laws, and forming the whole thing not as a question or a beg for a solution but rather a simple polite statement that you trust that they will rectify your problem otherwise you will be forced to seek other remedies as provided for by the law including but not limited to [whatever remedy is proscribed as a solution that's not sueing them since that threat already exists].
I get great signal out of my coat-hanger antenna...followed some youtube instructions (which I hate BTW...when you are actually following instructions it is much easier to just look at measurements and steps on a piece of paper than have to keep rewinding a damn video) and I get all of my local channels crystal clear...better in fact than the compressed versions that the cable company pushes down their tubes. Too bad all of the network TV basically sucks and the best programming has moved to cable.
I don't blame them though...network TV is just an ad vehicle and not a space for actual art and creativity; it is hard to keep writing a decent show when you are forced to pump out 23 episodes a season (even if you get to fill 1/3 of the time with ads). The cable networks have the freedom to run shows on their own cycle and have no qualms about running a 13 episode season if that is what gets the story told successfully (since someone like HBO or AMC depends on drawing viewers to the caliber of the programming which they have to pay for directly rather than catching channel flippers on the free channels and then generating income from ads). Seems that any good foreign show that I have seen also features short seasons without BS filler (Forbrydelsen, early Skins, etc).
Really, the on demand streaming market favors this type of programming too. Instead of having to fill 24 hours a day with crap so that anytime someone turns on a TV they will have ads to watch, streaming requires you to offer something compelling to get people to watch it but you don't necessarily have to generate as much content since the guy watching at 2AM can watch the same thing that someone else watched at 7:30. It won't mean that crap goes away (since some people seemingly like crap) but I think the changing metric of competition will influence the kind of content that gets produced. Instead of competing to win a time slot, shows will have to compete to win a chunk of each viewer's limited screen-time.
If Johnny ends up only having 3 hours this week to watch TV, he is going to watch the 3 hours of TV he most wants to see rather than whatever is on from 7-8 on tuesday and 8-10 on sunday.
I believe he means that he uses the computer with a stylus in tablet mode (X60t, t=tablet) when he needs to write/draw and he flips the screen around and uses the keyboard when it is time to use vim.
You mean like the android-phone connected ski goggle systems that already exist?
Its not quite a HUD yet (more of a screen in a part of your vision that would be obscured by the goggles) but its pretty cool. Far less than $9000 although still more than I'd be willing to pay--would be kind of cool to get some live stats plus trail maps showing where all of your friends are on the mountain.
Citrix's published apps are the equivalent of X-forwarded applications.
In my situationn, you can't remote desktop if you aren't on the network and you can't join the VPN unless you are on their hardware (and if I have my vpn-approved laptop with me, I won't need to remote desktop to it anymore). If I pull up the citrix desktop on my personal machine, I now have a desktop that is running inside of the corporate network with an RDP client that will let me remote desktop into other machines...so basically I only use the citrix desktop itself for 30 seconds while I connect to a second full screen remote session. Its not ideal, but hey...it works fine and more importantly, I can use a linux or mac citrix client and then RDP perfectly into a windows work machine.
It gets better though when you look at the published apps. If I just want to get into the billing software, run the ridiculously expensive data analysis software (which requires connectivity to work anyways since processing and storage are on the server), or run excel from a non-windows machine, I have those all available as published applications. If I run one of those through citrix, it just opens up in its own window as if it were a local application (just like an x-forward).
what company has traveling employees and calls them out for email, browsing, and paying bills on the road?
I know some of my friends parents who basically use their work laptops as their only computers after the kids moved out and they stopped having to have a family computer...but I obviously see the need to keep my own systems independent from the work systems (things like my picture and music libraries should be at risk if my work laptop gets taken away...not to mention the NSFW stuff). That being said, I just got back from a business trip and am writing this post on my work laptop after finishing up a little work. The company's policy allows for such incidental use and when you are traveling, surely all non-work use is covered by this same incidental use classification--if not, maybe it is time to look for a new job.
Honestly, I don't think I have *ever* upgraded a CPU on a machine.
I just keep them going until full replacement (with maybe ram/HDD upgrades)...have never felt the need to upgrade fast enough that same-socket upgrades were a valid path.
there is a nice step up from the E-350 to the A-series llano apus.
I just built one with the A6 version (triple cored 65W) but the super cheap A4 is great. Tons of power vs an E-350 or atom+ION system. The integrated GPU is excellent and if you add a pci-e video card, they will work together as an SLI pair.
I've heard the linux drivers can be iffy with the AMD stuff. My old htpc was on an ion nettop with linux and worked great but I have been running win7 and it is working fine although it has some really boneheaded behavior with regards to HDMI handling that linux solved (whenever I shut off the TV or reciever, it decides it needs to briefly cut out the hdmi-audio and reset the resolution)
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I have a galaxy S (well, an AT&T Captivate or something that is a Galaxy S on the inside with an AT&T case) and I get a day with reasonable use. A lot of use followed by a late night and it will die but otherwise if I forget to plug it in, it will still be alive in the morning but deep into the red. I maybe make a phone call or two, send and receive a couple texts and receive emails from a gmail and an exchange account. Do you have that giant extra battery they sell?
Honestly though, I like this phone. It is a decent size (just a pinch bigger than an iphone 4) and with CM7, seems to do whatever I need. I wish that the Galaxy S3 was just this phone but taking advantage of advances in tech to make it slightly more powerful while having twice as much battery life (instead of the actual S3 which is probably more than twice as powerful and has a much larger screen but at an additional cost to battery life).
Sure they can be mapped to real numbers but lets face it 5 and below are not useful to me. If a game gets an F, then I am probably not going to play it. A score of 1 is almost unreasonable...its like they managed to ship me a blank DVD (and maybe they will get a 2 if the cover art was real nice). A 3 might install and play but be horrifically buggy and have terrible gameplay and a plot that resembles reading a choose your own adventure book in page order. Basically they all suck and I don't want to play them (but its pretty hard to suck so bad that you actually get any major distributor to sell your game if you are in the 1-3 territory)--there is a lot of variance in the failing grades ranging from didn't try at all to tried but was unable to comprehend the point of a video game but they all still fail.
Almost doesn't make sense to have plusses and minuses on the C or D rankings either...below a certain point a game is just a C and there's not enough to really discern the difference between a C and C-. Just doesn't make sense for games to be normally distributed since they are actively trying to release good games--the worst games will never be released (or nobody will bother to review them) while the other games will be the gamemaker's best attempt and will thus end up somewhere in the ABC range.
Sure, my slowpoke car driving in circles will just create more congestion and emissions for everyone else...but fuck 'em! at least I didn't have to find a parking spot.
I just pulled up the same area with the same price range as I was looking at yesterday in padmapper and housingmaps only shows two apartments for rent where padmapper was showing 30+ (and most of the padmapper results were craigslist based)
Its not even that novel of a concept...look at Valve and VAC, if you get caught cheating on a VAC secured server, your entire account gets blacklisted and can't play on other anti cheat servers (and this applies to every game linked to your steam account which is actually kind of scary). There are still other servers that don't enforce anti-cheat but my guess is they are filled mostly with hackers and pirates (so basically...a cheaters pool).
What happens is someone comes up with a nice hack, people start using it, Valve figures it out and bans everyone it can catch, and then the hack author notices it has been found and they modify it in such a way that it avoids detection again. Every time Valve does this, they ban a bunch of accounts who are gone forever unless they come in and buy a new game. It doesn't stop cheating or make it impossible...but it puts a financial burden on the cheater.
I'm not saying you can't play single player D3. I played single player through normal before switching to multiplayer (since people skip all of the cutscenes in multiplayer) and I still often play by myself. What I am saying is that D3 can not be made to play offline, it is simply not possible with the way the game is designed. You install the client on your computer and you connect to the server on blizzards computer which generates everything important about the game.
If blizzard wanted to have an offline mode to appease the tiny fraction of D2 players who used it, they would have to completely develop, test, and maintain both windows and osx versions of this server (since I highly doubt the battlenet servers run windows). As others have mentioned, this would probably also make it easier for botters and hackers to develop exploits and at the end of the day, it would cost a ton of money for a tiny little group of gamers (many of whom have access to internet connections anyways and would be perfectly happy just playing solo on battlenet).
An offline mode would be a nice feature...but not if it is going to cost them a boatload of money and an extra year of development time.
The game is in fact just like WoW--you may be able to spawn your own private instance of the world that nobody else can join, but all game logic takes place on blizzard hardware. The monster that is attacking you and the loot that it drops are all entries in a database on a server somewhere and if you don't have an internet connection, you can't play.
Sure, an offline mode would be nice--especially after I discovered that the game is super-playable with a thinkpad's trackpoint nub (couldn't play for crap with the touchpad but the trackpoint was 99% as good as a mouse) which would make it a perfect game to kill time on an airplane or train or in some other similar situation where you are sitting for a long time with now low-latency internet--but I am willing to accept that they were not going to completely rewrite a local version of the game server just so I can play at 10,000 feet.
Even if I actually wanted to see the ad, I would have lost interest at this point.
This is not a commodity problem like molecules of water flowing through a pipe or electrons moving down a wire (although electricity does have a little bit of a dual issue with respect to concurrent use since power generation has to be ramped up or down to meet demand). If you send or receive a packet at 3AM when nobody else is using the lines, it doesn't matter. What matters are those packets you want to send and receive at 5PM in the city when everybody is trying to stream pandora or watch a youtube clip on their commute home.
If you aren't going to support unlimited, its actually kind of a hard problem to solve. Things that made sense with the voice paradigm--local calls being free since there are lots of local interconnects while long distance calls were charged per minute since they only had a limited number of lines in and out of your community--don't make sense in the digital age of packets and little chunks (since you don't need continuous monopoly over a piece of wire). Any sort of price put on data transfer is not related to the cost of sending a packet at all, it is merely an attempt to thwart usage to a point where peak usage is less than peak capacity.
I tend to participate in some discussions on a forum I am a member of, but I wait to watch with friends--we probably won't be able to get together until tuesday to watch it. I can still go back and read the discussion that is occurring now, but as comments get stale, I can't really respond to them. I could read them now without spoilers since I have read the book, but a lot of the discussion tends to be about differences from the book and without seeing the episode, I can't really talk about those points.
It would be even worse if I was a week late. If it airs on sunday night and I don't go hit the forum until lunchtime on monday, there are probably already 10 posts about the new episode on top of a pile of posts about the episode I just watched...I really can't engage in the conversation at this point. If I just went online and downloaded it last week when it aired (since these days you can usually have the torrent downloaded and be watching 60 minutes after airing), I would be able to engage in the discussion.
The average person doesn't need things like gigabit or even a disc drive anymore (can't remember the last time I used a disc at home and other than my desktop and htpc which don't have wireless, the last time I plugged my laptop into the network was a long time ago and I only did it to save a couple minutes on a big transfer). But the business user (or professonal) has other requirements that they don't set.
At work, we run ethernet only--no non-physical connections to the network and only ports that are expected to be in use are activated. We get DVDs from clients who refuse or are unwilling to provide data on an HDD or send electronically. Maybe you are a photographer whose client wants a CD burned with the images. Maybe the business hotel you are staying at only offers suitable ethernet and no wifi.
Its an important feature and seems dumb to remove. They already have the normal macbook and the macbook air...lets keep a power-model for the power-users. Also, if they are worried about the width of the port, why not switch to one of those ports where you push on them and they pop out a little tab where you insert the ethernet cable from the top like all of the old non-dongle PCMCIA ethernet cards and modems.
The university of chicago has a similar deal every year (unrelated to the scav hunt)
The less direct imitation products can taste fine. Tofu has some great preparations, a good seitan can be an excellent component to a dish, and people make some phenomenal things with black bean. The imitations just make so little sense for anyone who isn't doing it to "make a statement" and/or be cool--if you are doing it for your love of animals, then why on earth do you want to eat something that looks and tastes just like them??? If you are doing it to save the environment, wtf are you doing buying frozen, flavored, processed foods trucked in from who knows where?
Picasa--although I think that maintaining its status as competition to iphoto is key to keeping people using picasa web albums and certainly new enhancements point towards pushing user content onto Google+
Maybe it makes sense that they wouldn't start actively targeting Apple until 11.6% market share, but somebody's got to be first and if you are a virus-guy and come across some big vulnerability that will allow you to rapidly infect a ton of machines...you go for it. Maybe he wasn't even targeting apple but stumbled across a vulnerability that would work and jumped on it.
Also, how much does one account for the purpose of the attack? If you are just trying to make more botnet drones it doesn't really matter if you target apple, but if you are trying to steal personal info, maybe there is some advantage to knowing that Apple users tend to be wealthier and may also be more likely to be trusting in their computer's security and leave things like account information in the clear (or if you broke into apple's keychain, you would have a goldmine since every computer uses it).
I had an issue with my property management company. The full extent of the issue was slow to manifest and in the early stages they had been moderately helpful so I continued to hope they would act in good faith as the problem got worse. Of course they didn't (they are known scum) and would constantly tell they would call back with a response or have a workman call me about taking care of it but nobody ever called. They wanted to replace my damaged hardwood floors with tile (which I wasn't happy about) but I couldn't even get a call or a plan from the tile guy.
I sent my 14-day notice (in IL your landlord has 14 days from this to solve the problem before you can start doing things like withholding rent, hiring someone yourself to fix it, or start breaking your lease) and on day #14 I get a phone call that the guy is coming to fix it (and a hardwood floor guy, not tile). Technically I could have withheld rent for the few days it took him to do his work but I was just happy to have everything done.
It wasn't sent on legal letterhead but I work with enough lawyers that I can sort of make it sound like a lawyer wrote it or provided advice. Things like listing exact dates of correspondence, using language directly from the lease and relevant laws, and forming the whole thing not as a question or a beg for a solution but rather a simple polite statement that you trust that they will rectify your problem otherwise you will be forced to seek other remedies as provided for by the law including but not limited to [whatever remedy is proscribed as a solution that's not sueing them since that threat already exists].
I don't blame them though...network TV is just an ad vehicle and not a space for actual art and creativity; it is hard to keep writing a decent show when you are forced to pump out 23 episodes a season (even if you get to fill 1/3 of the time with ads). The cable networks have the freedom to run shows on their own cycle and have no qualms about running a 13 episode season if that is what gets the story told successfully (since someone like HBO or AMC depends on drawing viewers to the caliber of the programming which they have to pay for directly rather than catching channel flippers on the free channels and then generating income from ads). Seems that any good foreign show that I have seen also features short seasons without BS filler (Forbrydelsen, early Skins, etc).
Really, the on demand streaming market favors this type of programming too. Instead of having to fill 24 hours a day with crap so that anytime someone turns on a TV they will have ads to watch, streaming requires you to offer something compelling to get people to watch it but you don't necessarily have to generate as much content since the guy watching at 2AM can watch the same thing that someone else watched at 7:30. It won't mean that crap goes away (since some people seemingly like crap) but I think the changing metric of competition will influence the kind of content that gets produced. Instead of competing to win a time slot, shows will have to compete to win a chunk of each viewer's limited screen-time.
If Johnny ends up only having 3 hours this week to watch TV, he is going to watch the 3 hours of TV he most wants to see rather than whatever is on from 7-8 on tuesday and 8-10 on sunday.
I believe he means that he uses the computer with a stylus in tablet mode (X60t, t=tablet) when he needs to write/draw and he flips the screen around and uses the keyboard when it is time to use vim.
Its not quite a HUD yet (more of a screen in a part of your vision that would be obscured by the goggles) but its pretty cool. Far less than $9000 although still more than I'd be willing to pay--would be kind of cool to get some live stats plus trail maps showing where all of your friends are on the mountain.
An 80 hour a week average lawyer might not do any more actual work than a 40 hour average but they generate double the income to the firm.
People spent hours and hours trying to optimize their skill and stat point builds for Diablo II...how is this any different?
In my situationn, you can't remote desktop if you aren't on the network and you can't join the VPN unless you are on their hardware (and if I have my vpn-approved laptop with me, I won't need to remote desktop to it anymore). If I pull up the citrix desktop on my personal machine, I now have a desktop that is running inside of the corporate network with an RDP client that will let me remote desktop into other machines...so basically I only use the citrix desktop itself for 30 seconds while I connect to a second full screen remote session. Its not ideal, but hey...it works fine and more importantly, I can use a linux or mac citrix client and then RDP perfectly into a windows work machine.
It gets better though when you look at the published apps. If I just want to get into the billing software, run the ridiculously expensive data analysis software (which requires connectivity to work anyways since processing and storage are on the server), or run excel from a non-windows machine, I have those all available as published applications. If I run one of those through citrix, it just opens up in its own window as if it were a local application (just like an x-forward).
I know some of my friends parents who basically use their work laptops as their only computers after the kids moved out and they stopped having to have a family computer...but I obviously see the need to keep my own systems independent from the work systems (things like my picture and music libraries should be at risk if my work laptop gets taken away...not to mention the NSFW stuff). That being said, I just got back from a business trip and am writing this post on my work laptop after finishing up a little work. The company's policy allows for such incidental use and when you are traveling, surely all non-work use is covered by this same incidental use classification--if not, maybe it is time to look for a new job.
I just keep them going until full replacement (with maybe ram/HDD upgrades)...have never felt the need to upgrade fast enough that same-socket upgrades were a valid path.
I just built one with the A6 version (triple cored 65W) but the super cheap A4 is great. Tons of power vs an E-350 or atom+ION system. The integrated GPU is excellent and if you add a pci-e video card, they will work together as an SLI pair.
I've heard the linux drivers can be iffy with the AMD stuff. My old htpc was on an ion nettop with linux and worked great but I have been running win7 and it is working fine although it has some really boneheaded behavior with regards to HDMI handling that linux solved (whenever I shut off the TV or reciever, it decides it needs to briefly cut out the hdmi-audio and reset the resolution)